Project Buford T Justice Our 1987 9C1 Caprice Hits The SCCA Autocross – Photos And Video!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice May 14, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I spend lots of time telling you to get out there and do stuff with your car. Whether it be the drags, cruising, the road course, or autocrossing, I’m constantly harping on you to ditch the couch and burn some tire. Unlike other places that like to talk and talk [...]
Project Buford T Justice: Our Caprice 9C1 Gets The Shaft! A Dynotech Drive Shaft That Is!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice April 12, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dynotech Engineering and the Author) – At its base, hot rodding has always been about trying stuff, breaking stuff, fixing stuff, and getting better, faster, and stronger along the way. That’s been the case with the 1987 Caprice Buford T Justice project thus far as I’ve taken the worn out stock suspension and [...]
Buford T Justice Update: We Install A First Gen Chevelle Flowmaster Kit On Our 9C1 Caprice!
Posted in BangShift Projects April 3, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Well I celebrated Buford’s one year anniversary in fine style last week by finally getting back to wrenching on the car. The weather has broken, Spring is here, and I found both of my kids when the snow banks melted. Life is very good! If you have been following the saga of Buford T Justice, [...]
Project Buford T Justice Update: Where Has Our 9C1 Caprice Been Hiding?
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice March 18, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting) – So it has been a while since you’ve seen anything with respect to our much beloved project Buford T Justice Caprice. What the Hell, right? We can assure you that nothing underhanded is going on and that we’re actually on a short holding pattern until we return to the dyno [...]
Buford T Justice Update: A Very Frustrating Day On The Dyno And How We’re Planning To Fix It
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice February 18, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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So first, I’ll lead with an apology. This update was supposed to run last week but a blizzard and a bunch of other stuff jumped up and caused the delay. With the amount of email, text, forum, and other messages I got from fans of the Buford T Justice 1987 9C1 Caprice I knew that [...]
Buford T Justice Update: A TCI 700R4 And Breakaway Torque Converter Get Our 9C1 Caprice Shifty!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice February 5, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Last week I installed the cylinder heads, COMP lifters, rockers, pushrods,and LS lifter guides into Buford’s small block mill. While all that was nice, we still had a massive problem on our hands with the discovery of the huge crack in the bell housing of the TH350 that had been in the car since the [...]
Buford T Justice Update: Headers, Cheap LS Technology, New Valvetrain Parts, More Compression, Fun!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice January 30, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Our weekly Buford updates continue! When last we left you, Dana Hard and Jon Wall at Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts had just finished working on the 083 cylinder heads for the 350 (actually 357ci with the .040 over bore) in Buford T Justice. John Engstrom had notched and braced the factory cross member [...]
Buford T Justice 9C1 Caprice Update: Metal Fab,Head Work, A Good Surprise, An Awful One
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice January 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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As promised, we’re back with another update of Project Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice. In the last installment we took the car to the dyno and thrashed all day bolting on more than 20hp at the tires with ignition upgrades, a new intake, and a new carb. Returning home from the dyno, we [...]
Project Buford T Justice: We Go On Hot Pursuit Of Horsepower-Our 9C1 Caprice’s 350 Gets A Slap!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice January 14, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Buckle up kids, ’cause we’re going for a long ride. If you remember a couple of months back, we had a grand plan of hitting the drag strip, and then the chassis dyno with a pile of parts in full attack mode to do a one day total make over [...]
Project Buford T Justice Quick Update: Where The Hell Has Our 9C1 Caprice Been?!
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice December 10, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We know that you’ve been wondering what the hell happened to Buford T Justice since our last proclamation about heading to the dyno to pile parts onto the old ol’ 350 under the hood and crank things up in the steam department. We know that you’ve been thinking we slipped on a banana peel, blew [...]
Project Buford T Justice Update: Drag Strip Thrash Squashed By Ma Nature – We Learn Stuff – Plan B!
Posted in BangShift Projects November 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We had the parts, the car, the tools, and the rough plan. Mother Nature had the upper hand. A couple of Sundays back we left well before daylight broke with Buford T Justice on the trailer, heading for New England Dragway in Epping, NH for our parts install drag strip flog-a-palooza. We got the strip, [...]
Buford Update: We Flog The Suspension, Unveil a Mountain of Speed Parts, Spill Our Wild Drag Strip Plan
Posted in BangShift Projects October 25, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – So last we left you, Buford T Justice had quit running on us twice during some mundane cruising action around town. The first time the car shut down we determined that the ignition coil had walked off the job. Enlisting the help of local pal Jon Wall [...]
Driveway Tech: How To Swap A Jeep Steering Shaft Into Your GM B-Body or G-Body Car With A Trashed Rag Joint
Posted in BangShift Projects October 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve been piling up the miles on Buford T Justice, our 1987 Chevy Caprice project recently. Having completed the suspension upgrade and installed the new wheels and tires, the thing is a riot to heave into the corners and scare the kids, passengers, and passers by with. That being said, there was still a nagging [...]
Buford Update: Our 9C1 Caprice Gets Real With Mickey Thompson Tires and Cragar Wheels
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice October 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Last we left you, Project Buford T Justice was sitting on all four tires suspended by a complete Hotchkis Sport Suspension system and some hardcore solid steel AFCO bushings. While that was cool and all, we still had work to do and pieces to add to the [...]
Update: Hotchkis Suspension & AFCO Bushings Transform Our 9C1 Caprice
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice September 25, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Well we can officially say that Project Buford T Justice is underway and the transformation from a sad sack, 196,000 mile ex-police vehicle into a fun to drive tire shredder is under way. Using basic tools, a whole lot of elbow grease, some help from our friends, and a pile of great parts from Hotchkis [...]
Buford T Justice 9C1 Update: The Parts From Hotchkis, Cragar, AFCO, and Mickey Thompson
Posted in Buford - 9C1 Caprice July 25, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Last week we put Buford T Justice, our project 1987 Caprice 9C1 through the last set of paces on the stock suspension and tires. The car performed as we pretty much thought it would, wallowing some, sliding around on the junky tires, and acting like a 25 year old car with suspension that has had [...]
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